Rookie Road Trip For those unfamiliar, Rookie is an online magazine for teens focusing on style, music, advice and more, founded by blogging wunderkind Tavi Gevinson. This summer, the Rookie team is heading out for a nationwide road trip in partnership with Urban Outfitters and The Ardorous. Rookie will be stopping at Omaha’s favorite independent […]
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Shimmering ‘Glimpses’
Artist Susan Knight brings to Midwesterners an ocean of sensuality and insight with “Glimpses” at RNG Gallery thru July 8, the second time she has shown with the gallery, the first in the new Council Bluffs location. Knight transforms RNG via paper into an environment of beachy ease—flowing paper; twisting waves, cool colors and moving […]
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A Pantry of Immigrants
And DishOmaha Team The American palate is constantly evolving. Evidence of that evolution here in Omaha is the strength and number of established ethnic markets throughout the city. Mexico, Asia, India and the Mediterranean are all represented, reinforcing culture with shared shopping and supporting the dishes that have been made and served for generations. Most […]
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Armageddon Lucky?
When we are stripped of our artifice and rendered bare souls no longer hidden behind societal constraints or cultural norms, only then are we our genuine self. For some folks, an hour without electricity or a rough day at the office is enough to unleash the truths that hide inside, which is apparently most often […]
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Pick: DeVotchKa
July 2 Devotchka, So-So Sailors, Pony Wars Slowdown 729 N. 14 St. 8 p.m., $15.00 The last place I would’ve expected DeVotchKa to hail from is right down the road in Denver – their name sure does harken to mind a rag-tag group of beefy tattooed ex-Soviet prison guards escaping their callous pasts through Siberian […]
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Movieha! – Omaha’s Favorite Movie Podcast
Welcome audio explorers! This week your two intrepid (that means vulgar, right?) hosts discuss the finer points of turtle fighting and the acceptable mourning time before a reboot, reveal our new favorite word for hobo, pass the new Tom Cruise movie like a kidney stone, christen a cult classic in Netflix Roulette, and write you […]
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Cutting Room for June 22
Of my cowboy father-in-law’s many colloquial expressions, one of my favorites comes out whenever I innocently brag about myself. He says, “It’s not the whistle that pulls the train.” I want to believe him, but he’s lied before, most notably during what I call “the electric fence deception.” So when Film Streams (filmstreams.org) partners with […]
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Pick: Contested Terrain: Painting the Modern Landscape
June 30 Contested Terrain: Painting the Modern Landscape Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge St. FREE 10a.m.-noon; visit joslyn.org for admission, hours 342.3300 Joslyn Art Museum opens Contested Terrain: Painting the Modern Landscape with a free artist conversation at 10:30a.m. Artists Chuck Forsman, Karen Kitchel, and Don Stinson, speaking about their work in the Contested Terrain […]
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bemisUNDERGROUND’s Performing Human…Kent Bellows prints on view…
At bemisUNDERGROUND, Performing Human opens June 29. The exhibit with new work from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate Kan Seidel (now a Chicago resident) presents photography and video presenting six conceptually linked human subjects inhabiting or pursuing “idealized states of identity” like the model relationship, complete happiness of the “American Dream.” BemisUNDERGROUND curator Joel Damon […]
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Whee! Lasses!
Ubiquitous, beloved and dangerous, animated fairy tales are more than just opportunities to sell toy tiaras to the tune of millions; they are typically the first encounters women have with the reinforcement of an oppressive patriarchal social structure, and their mothers are often the ones innocently opening the window to let in this boogeyman. Consider […]